Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

[Bernt Hansson]

Julien Cigar said the following on 2008-12-11 14:40:
> - Altough ports are fantastic, building things like OpenOffice or ... is
> just inhuman, especially when you cannot use -j for building ports (but
> it's being resolved I think).

Of course you can use -j to build ports.

Just cd to/your/port make -j8 install (clean)
With portupgrade you use -m -j8